Businesses Hit, Denied Healthcare How ‘Covid Jihad’ Propaganda Hurt UP’s Muslims
By FATIMA KHAN / The Quint
In March 2020, as Covid struck the world, it had a peculiar impact in India. A Tablighi Jamaat congregation...
Watch | ‘Election Only on Riots, Goons’: Former IT Cell Officer Exposes BJP’s UP...
By Arfa Khanum Sherwani / The Wire
Arfa Khanum Sherwani speaks exclusively to a former IT cell chief of the BJP, who breaks down the...
Hijab row sparks fears of Muslim marginalization in India
By ZAFAR AAFAQ / Nikkei Asia
NEW DELHI -- For over two months, tension has gripped India's southern state of Karnataka, after schools and colleges...
India’s ruling party says crime is down. Muslims say they’ve never felt less safe
LUCKNOW, India – Five years ago, prospective landlords in Mumbai recoiled when Kajal Singh told them where she was from.
Singh grew up in Meerut,...
Of Nightmares and Dreams: Children Deal with Aftermath of Delhi Riots 2020
By ANTHONY S ROZARIO / The Quint
Even the slightest commotion takes Khushi back to the afternoon of 24 February 2020 when a mob broke...
UP polls: ‘The police killed our son, but no-one believes us’
By Vikas Pandey / BBC
Muhammad Raees was killed in India's Uttar Pradesh state in 2019 and two years on, his family is still waiting...
Fahad Shah’s Re-Arrest After Bail: Why It May Be an Abuse of Legal Process
By MEKHALA SARAN / The Quint
On the evening of 26 February, journalist Fahad Shah’s lawyer was expecting his release, after he was granted interim bail...
India retains ‘partially free’ status for second year in Freedom House’s 2022 report
India was called a “partially free” country for the second year in a row in the 2022 report by the United States non-governmental organisation,...
Delhi Police Oppose Bail for Sharjeel Citing His Remarks on North-East
NEW DELHI – While strongly opposing bail plea of Sharjeel Imam, a JNU student and social activist under detention in connection with 2020 northeast Delhi...
Maharashtra Police Books Radical Hindu Priest For Hate Speech
PUNE–The Ahmednagar Police in Maharashtra has lodged an FIR against controversial and far right radical Hindutva priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati Mahant of Gaziabad-based Dasna Devi...
The Security Playbook Used To Erode Democracy In Modi’s India & How The Tide...
By SHAMIK BAG / Article-14
PROLOGUE
‘The State is coming for us’
Kolkata: The knock on the door came at 6.30 am on 17 April 2018, as singers Jyoti...
100+ Instances of Hate Speech, Religious Polarisation, Hindutva Supremacy in Adityanath’s Poll Speeches
By Madeeha Fatima, Naomi Barton and Alishan Jafri / The Wire
New Delhi: Much has been made of Yogi Adityanath’s ‘communal agenda’ across his campaign in...
